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#: 16210 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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14-Aug-92 17:31:36
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Sb: #16206-Old Monk, New Toy
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: Bob Palmer 74646,2156
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Interesting you mention tape backup software from FHL. A freind of mine was
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counting on this software from Frank. In fact, it was a major deciding factor
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making a TC70 his choice rather than an MM/1.
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Over a year from the purchase of the TC70, he's yet to have received the Tape
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backup software.
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Go figure.
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Steve
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#: 16211 S7/Telecommunications
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14-Aug-92 20:11:16
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Sb: #16172-#9600 Baud modems
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Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203
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To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 (X)
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Hi Steve... I ordered my new modem today. Not the Infotel unit, but I got
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talked up into a GVC unit with both MNP2-5 and V42.bis. At $250 it sounds like
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a pretty good deal. I should have it in about a week--so I'll let ya all know
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how it works out.
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#: 16212 S7/Telecommunications
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15-Aug-92 00:52:21
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Sb: #16211-9600 Baud modems
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Fm: Mike Haaland 72300,1433
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To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 (X)
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Nice grab! When I got mine it cost $500, but that was 1 1/2 years ago.
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- Mike -
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#: 16218 S7/Telecommunications
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15-Aug-92 10:20:07
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Sb: #16211-9600 Baud modems
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 (X)
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Sounds great, Bob! Let us know when you get it.
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BTW ... don't forget that CIS keeps a separate parameter PROFILE for each baud
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rate you use. Once you start using 9600 baud, you may find it necessary to GO
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PROFILE and redefine things you thought were already set!
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Steve
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#: 16213 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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15-Aug-92 04:25:19
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Sb: #16184-#I$Seek on MM/1
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Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
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To: GLEN HATHAWAY 71446,166 (X)
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Glen,
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Are you sure you're seeking back? (Or have you found a bug in your program
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since you posted your message?)
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You should be able to draw directly to the screen memory; of course you'll have
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to set the dots into nybbles (for 16-color) or bytes (for 256-color).
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kevin
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#: 16226 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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15-Aug-92 23:05:10
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Sb: #16213-#I$Seek on MM/1
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Fm: GLEN HATHAWAY 71446,166
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To: Kevin Darling 76703,4227 (X)
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Hi Kev... The I$Seek thing has gotta be a bug, but I can't find it! I'll look
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some more - if I can't find it, I'll send ya a code frag and maybe you'll spot
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it.
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What I meant by writing to the screen-mem directly was this: I used to shoot
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ascii codes directly to screen mem and the CoCo would turn it into text. Course
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you had to write every other byte and just hit the in-between ones for
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attributes. Can I do this on the MM/1?
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Glen Hathaway - COMPER - 71446,166
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#: 16230 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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16-Aug-92 09:10:04
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Sb: #16226-#I$Seek on MM/1
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Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
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To: GLEN HATHAWAY 71446,166 (X)
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Glen,
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Nope. The CoCo has that ROM-character mode; the MM/1 (and ST and Amiga and a
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lot of others) just have graphics modes where the characters have to be
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explicitly drawn.
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With extra circuitry a ROM text mode could be added, but there's no plans for
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it, as far as I know.
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kev
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#: 16235 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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16-Aug-92 12:47:59
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Sb: #16230-#I$Seek on MM/1
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Fm: GLEN HATHAWAY 71446,166
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To: Kevin Darling 76703,4227 (X)
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Hi Kevin... You think I could draw chars to screen faster than the OS, or
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windowing system, or whoever's doing it now? Probably that stuff is pretty fast
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already, right? I guess I may have to live with it - it's not really <that>
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bad...
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#: 16237 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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16-Aug-92 22:09:41
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Sb: #16235-#I$Seek on MM/1
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Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
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To: GLEN HATHAWAY 71446,166 (X)
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Sure, there's no doubt that you could draw faster than going through the
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system. You probably couldn't scroll much faster though.
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And of course it limits where the program can be used. For example, I'd bet
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that EthaGUI would run on the ST, but it starts up with a direct-access fancy
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title which unfortunately (because ST screens use less memory) writes all over
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system structures and blows up. Too bad.
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kev
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#: 16239 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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16-Aug-92 23:16:36
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Sb: #16237-#I$Seek on MM/1
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Fm: GLEN HATHAWAY 71446,166
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To: Kevin Darling 76703,4227 (X)
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Hi Kev... Maybe I'll play with that later, after I've got the rest of the
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program solid. I don't need to scroll - I only have to update 2 sections of
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screen fast. You've seen Snap (now being sold as KwikZap by Gale Force
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Enterprises), right? I just have to update the hex and ascii sections. The rest
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can be 'legal' as speed is not necessary there.
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Hey remember my problem with I$Seek? Never mind - I'm embarrassed that I
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didn't catch it before. I left the prog alone for a few days, came back to it
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tonight and spotted the error right away - I was only moving a byte into d0 for
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the path number. I$Seek wants a word of course. Works fine now! Funny how it
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doesn't seek worth a damn when it's doing it in the wrong place, huh?
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#: 16240 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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17-Aug-92 00:50:25
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Sb: #16239-I$Seek on MM/1
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Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
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To: GLEN HATHAWAY 71446,166 (X)
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Heh. I do that all the time (moving a byte instead of a word or long, etc).
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Can be a bear to catch, especially if most of the time the leftover bits happen
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to work out!
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#: 16214 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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15-Aug-92 04:26:09
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Sb: #16188-#Get/SetStt's
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Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
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To: GLEN HATHAWAY 71446,166 (X)
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Hi Glen,
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There's a bunch more statcalls, but most are vestigal drawing calls and will go
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away soon.
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There's also a fancy set for making screen effects, which I need to restore to
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operation soon (if you saw the early MM/1 demos with sliding screens and blinds
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effects, etc, those were the ones).
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Actually tho, I'm trying to cut back the number of statcalls to a bare minimum.
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Sooner or later, the only ones left should be those which work over a net, or
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those which can only be used locally anyway (like get screen address :-)
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Re: traps. $00002400 is just where the global variables are on the MM/1. The
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$4AFC at the beginning of those is meaningless as far as I can tell... perhaps
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left over from being able to save out the globals as a data module long ago, or
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something.
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Just keep tracing along and you should run into the kernel module.
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best - kevin
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#: 16227 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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15-Aug-92 23:09:27
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Sb: #16214-Get/SetStt's
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Fm: GLEN HATHAWAY 71446,166
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To: Kevin Darling 76703,4227 (X)
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Hi Kevin... I haven't seen those demos - tried some demo scripts I got off
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Oceanside BBS, but they wouldn't work with my setup (windio 38).
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Thanks for the hint. One of these days I'll dig into it again - much too hung
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over today to think about it.
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Glen Hathaway - COMPER - 71446,166
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#: 16215 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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15-Aug-92 04:26:34
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Sb: #16207-#MM/1 _ss_play
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Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
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To: Stephen Seneker 75020,3611 (X)
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Stephen,
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Can you give a short example of your play code? (Mike H will have to look at
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it since you're using his C lib, I guess)
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Record has to use colored memory because the main memory DMA write cycle is
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over with before the A/D converter puts data on the bus. Ie: you just get
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junk. The colored memory is the slower video memory instead.
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best - kev
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#: 16216 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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15-Aug-92 06:15:33
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Sb: #16215-MM/1 _ss_play
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Fm: Stephen Seneker 75020,3611
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To: Kevin Darling 76703,4227 (X)
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Kevin,
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I believed so on the memory.... Now for the $20,000 question... what about
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recording more auido than available memory in video memory. I'm sure it can be
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done...
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I was under the impression that the windowing system had calls for doing audio
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I/O? Or at least something to that extent was in the tech. manual.
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What follows is a shorten version of the test program:
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#include <stdio.h> #include <sound.h>
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main() {
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char *sdata; /* sound data path */
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int spath; /* file */
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int path=1; /* STDOUT */
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int length; /* length of sound data/file */
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int freq; /* ????? do what with ????? */
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spath=open("bass2.iff",0x01);
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length=_gs_size(spath);
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sdata = (char *) _srqmem(length);
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read(spath,sdata,length);
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close(spath);
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_ss_play(path,sdata,length,freq/*???*/,SND_NOSIG,NULL);
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getchar();
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_srtmem(length,sdata);
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}
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I just typed it in from memory less the checks of returned values, like
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_srqmem(). The first try use malloc(), but no luck. I tried setting freq to
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different values. I got varied results like crashing, killing further audio
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play request, locking up the window... I'm using wind38... (whats in the
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works?) have 3megs... Need any other information?
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#: 16220 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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15-Aug-92 10:59:29
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Sb: sh
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: Carl Kreider 71076,76
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Carl,
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Seems to me I've heard you were fixing up the TOPS sh and are the official
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keeper of the sources.
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Is there a cleaned up version available somewhere?
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Steve
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#: 16222 S1/General Interest
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15-Aug-92 11:12:49
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Sb: #Moving to Denver
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Fm: Pete Lyall 76703,4230
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To: All
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Well, 10 years in California has been enough for us, so we're moving!
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We picked out a wonderful house in Denver a few months ago, and then set about
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getting jobs to make it happen. I just got word this week that I have to be on
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site at a customer's facility Monday morning (8/17/92) - whew!
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I'll probably be out there for several weeks before we can close on the house,
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so the family will be stuck here until that happens. I'll fly back then, and
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we'll physically move to Colodo.
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I'll make every attempt toget online everyday, but with the situation being
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what it is, it may be sticky for a bit (i.e. I won't have a machine or modem
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etc. that's definitely got an oustide line [yet!]).
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Marsha's still recovering from recent stomach surgery, so she wouldn't have
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been able to come along initially anyway.
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I thought it would make an interesting footnote to include that one of the two
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jobs it all boiled down to in Denver ended up being an embedded os9 project.
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Take care all - with luck I'll 'see' you all withing a few days!
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Pete Lyall
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#: 16225 S1/General Interest
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15-Aug-92 17:48:49
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Sb: #16222-#Moving to Denver
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Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
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To: Pete Lyall 76703,4230 (X)
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Hey Pete - where did you end up working? There was a recent ad on the internet
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for an os9 programmer in Denver. I'd love to move to Denver myself, since my
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folks have a second home in Colorado Springs, and I know most of Colorado
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pretty well... and the people are extra friendly.
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Tell us all about your job! And congrats!
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kev
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#: 16233 S1/General Interest
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16-Aug-92 10:46:24
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Sb: #16225-Moving to Denver
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Fm: Pete Lyall 76703,4230
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To: Kevin Darling 76703,4227 (X)
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I'll tell you a bit more in email.
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Pete
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#: 16228 S1/General Interest
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15-Aug-92 23:37:45
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Sb: #16222-#Moving to Denver
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Fm: Mike Haaland 72300,1433
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To: Pete Lyall 76703,4230 (X)
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Woopee! Glad you got the OS-9 job. You didn't mention Marsha going in for
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surgery. Naughty, Naughty. Tell her Kim says "Hi, hope you get back on your
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feet soon".
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We had a great time out here with both of you. Maybe you can make it 'out
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West' again soon.
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- Mike -
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PS. Just can't get away from OS-9 can ya.
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#: 16234 S1/General Interest
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16-Aug-92 10:54:03
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Sb: #16228-Moving to Denver
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Fm: Pete Lyall 76703,4230
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To: Mike Haaland 72300,1433 (X)
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Mike -
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Actually, the os9 job's calendar and mine didn't work out, although he asked me
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to call him when I got to town. I need to keep a second path open being as this
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is consulting work (!)....
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Yup - Marsha got a bunch of herniated muscle tissue removed (left over from
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when Heath was born). Non-technical term: tummy tuck. I don't know why they
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make it sound so inoffensive - it was a big, painful ordeal for her (actually
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still is).
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We also enjoyed the evening in Las Vegas. As you know, the slots were cruel to
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Marsha (this time), but I did alright. Next time, it's back to the Stardust for
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us. It's soo much nicer there.
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Pete
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P.S. Keep steaming.... <g>
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#: 16229 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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16-Aug-92 02:16:15
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Sb: Cipher 540GT
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Fm: Stephen Seneker 75020,3611
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To: all
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Anybody have the specs. on a Cipher 540GT SCSI tape drive? I have two and
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either want to use them for something or give them a home.
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#: 16231 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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16-Aug-92 09:11:08
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Sb: #_ss_play() Human err...
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Fm: Stephen Seneker 75020,3611
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To: 1
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I should kick myself REAL hard... if FREQ is specifed correctly _ss_play
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work just dandy! I use 40 instead of 40,000... real slow but... What was I
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thinking? [smile] %-) Obviously about something else... like proofing ones work
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you fill in he gaps.
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#: 16238 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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16-Aug-92 22:13:35
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Sb: #16231-_ss_play() Human err...
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Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
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To: Stephen Seneker 75020,3611 (X)
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Yah, you specify frequency in Hz. I think the range is about 3Khz to 40Khz.
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There seems to be a bug where if you pick a too high freq (or too low?) then
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snddrv crashes tho <grimace>. No biggie, just be aware :-)
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Snddrv will look up the closest timer frequency to the one you pass (usually
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the timer can get with a few tens of Hz) that can be used on the hardware. Ugh,
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terrible sentence.
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#: 16236 S1/General Interest
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16-Aug-92 13:14:45
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Sb: #Falcon
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Fm: John Eng 72520,520
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To: Kevin Darling 76703,4227 (X)
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Kevin, Good seeing you and Marsha in Chicago! Are you guys plan on going to
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Atlanta, don't know yet if I'll be going or if anyone else from here will be,
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like Gerry or Bruce. Speaking of Bruce, did you know he got married in Hawaii a
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couple of weeks ago? What do you think of Atari's new machine, "Falcon", and
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it's new operating system, "Multitos", based on Eric Smith's MiNT, also Sam
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Tramiel says that he or someone at Atari stays in regular contact with
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Microware and that OS9 should work on the "Falcon" ?
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John Eng
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#: 16241 S1/General Interest
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17-Aug-92 03:21:02
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Sb: #16236-Falcon
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Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
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To: John Eng 72520,520 (X)
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Hi John!
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Yep, we'll be at Atlanta as far as I know. Even thinking about getting a
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booth... at $35 apiece, heck I could use it to sell off my old gear :-)
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Gerry told me about Bruce getting married to his, what? high school sweetheart?
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I'm jealous that he could manage to elope in Hawaii, too.
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Yes, I saw that Atari Falcon conference transcript. Pretty interesting.
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For lurkers, Atari says they'll be bringing out a new machine, supposedly
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reaching the US in late October (if you know Atari, that means Christmas at the
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earliest :-) The main features are: 16MHz 68030, optional FPU, 1,4 or 14 MB
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of RAM, Motorola 56001 DSP chip, SVGA-ish+ graphics, stereo sound input and
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output, MIDI, SCSI, etc. Price to be announced in a few days. The interesting
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portion of the transcript was:
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Q: Will there be a port of Microware's OS-9 Operating system for
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the Falcon030?
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Sam: We're in regular contact with Microware, and OS/9 works for
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the most part just fine under the Atari Falcon030.
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Big question: what will a version of OS-9 cost, and who will sell it?
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#: 16245 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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18-Aug-92 01:11:33
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Sb: #Games
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Fm: Ian Hodgson 72177,1762
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To: All
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While browsing through a local shopping center, one which I do not normally
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frequent, I discovered a Radio Shack Liquidation Center. Next, I discovered
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just where all the old coco software ended up (and some hardware, too). They
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have a large selection of mostly games, including lots of OS9 ones. Everything
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is $2 so I picked up several. One, shanghai, turned out to be a cartridge, but
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the others were on disk. Now to my question. The Interbank Incident comes on
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OS9 level 1. A first try using a VDG window on level 2 crashed the system. I'm
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too tired to edit my boot file to make a VDG term, but before I do, has anyone
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else made this work on level 2? If so, what's involved? Oh, and if anyone is
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really anxious to get a particular game, let me know and I'll take a look next
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time I'm there.
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#: 16248 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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18-Aug-92 16:07:05
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Sb: #16245-Games
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Fm: Lee Veal 74726,1752
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To: Ian Hodgson 72177,1762 (X)
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I tried that on a VDG window on Level 2 several months ago, but now I can't
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remember whether it crashed the system or not. I'll check it out again and get
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back to you with what I find out.
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Lee
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#: 16249 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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18-Aug-92 23:21:56
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Sb: #16196-#Format error
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Fm: BOB LEET 72020,2536
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To: Kevin Darling 76703,4227 (X)
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Kev,
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My bootfile is about 124 sectors long. That is quite big, and probably the
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reason why I am getting the error then. I have actually tried to do the format
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immediately after the gshell boot, but no luck. So, it must be the big
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bootfile. I have another disk that makes me a 40tk ramdisk to do a 5-1/4"
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backup. I have been using it to do my formatting, but it's just so
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inconvenient to have to stop in the middle of things if I don't have a spare
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one around.
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Thanks for the help, Bob////// P.S. It took me a while to get back. I
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was doing my two weeks of Reserve
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Duty.
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#: 16252 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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19-Aug-92 00:52:12
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Sb: #16249-#Format error
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Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
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To: BOB LEET 72020,2536 (X)
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Bob,
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Sounds like you solved it (or at least got around it).
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Kind of reminds me of what I have to do here: I have a window air conditioner
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which, when its compressor is on, prevents me from writing to floppies.
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(Obviously I need to run a different powerline in here). Real pain.
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Which branch of service, btw? (Reserves)
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best - kev
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#: 16270 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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22-Aug-92 22:24:39
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Sb: #16252-Format error
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Fm: BOB LEET 72020,2536
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To: Kevin Darling 76703,4227 (X)
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Kev,
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Sounds like you do have abad problem with the AC unit. Just be glad
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you aren't in AZ, or you'd never get a disk formatted.
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I am in the NAVY Reserves. I did a program called SEA College. It was
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2 years of active duty and 4 years Reserves (only the 2 weeks a year though, no
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monthly drills). So, next year is my last year for that.
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I have a question for you. You made the Ramdisk-RAMMER, correct? If
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I'm right, is there any way to terminate it (i.e. within EXTRACTOR) when I have
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loaded it into memory in the startup file. It is merged with all my other
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important utilities into a file called Shellutil.
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Thanks, Bob//////
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#: 16250 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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18-Aug-92 23:26:07
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Sb: #16197-Format error
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Fm: BOB LEET 72020,2536
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To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 (X)
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Thanks Steve. My bootfile is 124 sectors long. I guess that's a wee
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bit too big. I'll have to resort to using my old bootdisk that gives me a 40tk
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Ramdisk, so I can do full backups of 5-1/4" disks.
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Thanks, Bob//////
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#: 16251 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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19-Aug-92 00:29:07
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Sb: NX-1020 Color Driver
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Fm: William L. Cotter 72557,306
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To: All
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I've just got my hands on a Star NX-1020 printer but I need help. Can anyone
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direct me to a color driver to print VEF format pictures on this unit? I've
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got a bunch of VEF pictures but I'm kind of tired of seeing them printed in
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shades of gray!!!!! If anyone knows of a color driver, please drop me a line
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in E-mail.
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Thanks,
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Bill Cotter
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72557,306
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#: 16253 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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19-Aug-92 01:48:05
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Sb: #more ??
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Fm: LARRY OLSON 72227,3467
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To: Kevin Darling 76703,4227 (X)
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Kevin,
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I hav'nt bugged you for awhile, so.....
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I was wondering about the status of the TC-70 port. Is it soup yet ??
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I've got alot more questions ;)
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Has anything been decided or is someone working on an ssplay function for
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the MM/1, similar to the CoCo3 ssplay. Will there be one, or is there a
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hardware sound generator in the works ?
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Are there any drivers, or firm rules, or guide lines for using the joystick
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ports in Kwindows on the MM/1 ?
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How is the video digitizer project going ?
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I think I'm finally getting a handle on C, been writing little filters and
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such, just finished a short one that simulates the Dir -e command. It may not
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sound like much, but its a milestone for me. This C is a whole different
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language ;).
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I struggled with trying to use GETIME for about a week, couldn't find any
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examples of how to call and use it, but I finally figured out how to setup the
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pointer to the structure that it needs. I just can't get over the fact that
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there are no C programs here with source, that access the time functions.
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I just started trying to write something a little more useful, when I was
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brought up short. There is no DRAW function in cgfx.l, like the DRAW function
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in Basic09. Is there any plans on adding a Basic09 type DRAW function to cgfx.l
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?
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Larry
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#: 16256 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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19-Aug-92 22:48:31
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Sb: #16253-#more ??
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Fm: Mike Haaland 72300,1433
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To: LARRY OLSON 72227,3467 (X)
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Hi Larry,
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Sounds like your on your way with C now. Coding is the only way I know of the
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really makes it 'sink in'.
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LHa is posted with source, along with ARC. Both use the time functions.
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What exactly does the DRAW function of Basic09 do? I'll try to point you in
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the right direction.
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- Mike -
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#: 16259 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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21-Aug-92 00:16:06
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Sb: #16256-#more ??
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Fm: LARRY OLSON 72227,3467
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To: Mike Haaland 72300,1433 (X)
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Mike,
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Thanks for the tip on the source for LHa & ARC, I didn't even think of
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those. I guess I was thinking of short little demo type programs.
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The Draw function I was thinking of is like the one in Basic & Basic09,
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where you would send a string of arguments like, "N5,SE10,W2", which would be
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converted to moe North 5 pixels, South East 10 pixels, West 2 pixels.
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The pixels would be turned on for those locations unless a "BM", blank move
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is made, and so on.
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I just wondered about this when I started trying to draw some objects, using
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the SetDPtr & Line functions and came to the conclusion that there must be a
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better way. I'll play around with it and see if I can come up with some kind of
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function that simulates the DRAW function.
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Larry
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#: 16262 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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22-Aug-92 02:21:20
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Sb: #16259-#more ??
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Fm: Mike Haaland 72300,1433
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To: LARRY OLSON 72227,3467 (X)
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Ahhh, You can use SetDPtr() to the initial location you want. The LineM()
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to draw to the new location and move the draw pointer to the new coordinates.
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For you relative Blank moves, use RSetDPtr(). It's a relative SetDPtr
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function. If the lines your drawing are relative lines, use RLineM() to also
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move the DP to the new position.
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Hope this is what you had in mind,
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- Mike -
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#: 16265 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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22-Aug-92 13:22:31
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Sb: #16262-more ??
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Fm: LARRY OLSON 72227,3467
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To: Mike Haaland 72300,1433
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Mike,
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I guess I'm just spoiled by Basic09. The functions,Bar, Box, Ellipse, and
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Line would use the current draw pointer position if 2 arguments were given or
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it would ignore the current draw position if 4 arguments were given. This
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would eliminate alot of SetDPtr calls.
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On another subject, I have been printing out all these header files, and
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looking at IFF.h and I'm supprised, there has been alot of work put in there.
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What I was wondering was, I see mention of picture files with sound included,
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is there such a thing ? Will AAPLAY play them ? What extension would these type
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of files have ?
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Larry
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#: 16260 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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21-Aug-92 00:28:16
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Sb: #16256-more ??
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Fm: LARRY OLSON 72227,3467
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To: Mike Haaland 72300,1433 (X)
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Mike,
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While I have you here, maybe you can answer a question for me.
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Does the Line() function only work with 2 arguments(besides PATH), or does
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it accept 4 arguments.
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Example: Line(path,100,100,300,100);
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This would draw a horizontal line 200 pixels long, starting at 100,100 and
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moving to 300,100.
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or are you limited too:
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SetDPtr(path,100);
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oops, let me start over ;)
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SetDPTR(path,100,100);
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Line(path,300,100);
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This is the form described in the cgfx doc files.
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Larry
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#: 16255 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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19-Aug-92 19:42:18
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Sb: Interbank
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Fm: Ian Hodgson 72177,1762
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To: all
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Continuing the Interbank Incident Saga: I didn't succeed in getting it to work
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on level 2, so I said the heck with it and tried it using its included level 1,
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ver 2.0. Worked part way, then locked up. Some investigation showed a bad CRC
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on the file "ibi" in the cmds directory of disk 0. I fixed the CRC, but no
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luck. Back to the store, and they don't have any more copies left. So, rather
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than just make a fuss and get my hard earned $2 back, I wondered if anyone out
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there has a good copy of ibi they could email to me? The rest of the files look
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fine.
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Thanks in advance, Ian
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#: 16257 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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20-Aug-92 04:14:20
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Sb: #RISC 88000
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Fm: SCOTT HOWELL 70270,641
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To: all
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Does anyone know about the performance numbers on the Motorola RISC 88000. How
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does it compare to the R6000 by MIPS or any other RISC chip on the market.
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#: 16261 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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21-Aug-92 17:25:09
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Sb: #16257-RISC 88000
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Fm: ole hansen 100016,3417
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To: SCOTT HOWELL 70270,641 (X)
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Hello Scott Howell
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Which 88000 are you asking for : 88100 or 88110 ?? The 88100 is running about
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23MIPS @ 25MHz and the 88110 is about 4 times faster. regards ole@danelec.dk
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#: 16263 S14/misc/info/Soapbox
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22-Aug-92 02:35:36
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Sb: #OS9 for Atari
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Fm: PETER SINGLETON 100024,335
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To: Anyone
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Can anyone point me in the right direction as to where I can purchase a copy of
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OS9 for the Atari STE.
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Thank you in advance for any info.
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All the Best ... Peter Singleton.
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#: 16272 S14/misc/info/Soapbox
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23-Aug-92 00:40:28
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Sb: #16263-OS9 for Atari
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Fm: BILL HEALTON 73367,357
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To: PETER SINGLETON 100024,335 (X)
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Peter, Atari ST/OS-9 was only being sold by Microware direct. Their number is
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(515) 224-1929. Last I had heard they were at version 2.3 and only offered the
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Professional OS-9 with C & RMA. Basic was extra. There used to be a personnel
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version, kind of like Tandy Level II, but they discontinued that in the move
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from 2.2 -> 2.3. If you find out something different in availability or
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versions could you post it in a reply?
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Thanks and good luck.
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Bill Healton
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Bill Healton (:<>
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#: 16271 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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22-Aug-92 22:32:45
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Sb: Vefprt.star
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Fm: William L. Cotter 72557,306
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To: 76625,2273
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I've downloaded your vefprt utility, but I can't get it to work with my Star
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NX-1020 color printer. When I use the Vefprt.star version, I get only a
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graphic "C" with a heart under it and then nothing but graphic characters on
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the page. I tried using my printer on my friend's Coco with MVCanvas with
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exactly the same results. Is there something special about the NX-1020? Any
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advice yo could give would be appreciated.
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Thanks,
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Bill Cotter
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72557,306
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